they effervesce
in cosmic cauldrons – to leap
with frightful legs,
these pangs of lightning
already gone
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
it must have been a rose
to send the death rattle's
zigzag bolt back
had it traveled one more instant,
through my lips, I was done for
* Spiros Zafiris is a Montreal poet…he is 60 years old and single. (What is this, some kind of dating service? …Ed)
